The La Perouse Aboriginal community was established in 1883 as a permanent Aboriginal settlement on the northern headland of Gamay through the actions of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board. The remaining Aboriginal people from camps around Sydney Harbour and Gamay at that time were relocated there.

 In the late 1890’s Aboriginal people living at La Perouse were described as:

For more than 20 years there has been a camp of aborigines near the village of La Perouse, on the northern shore of Botany Bay. They comprise of all that remains of the descendants of the native tribe that occupied the district at the time of the English occupation of New South Wales in 1788.

 Today, La Perouse is considered a discrete Aboriginal community which includes families with ancient and unbroken roots to coastal Sydney.